It is classified as Critically Endangered under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

The colour is chestnut-brown with zigzag cream flammulations (flame-like markings).

The sutures are impressed, with wide radial ribs.

[2] The species is endemic to Australia's Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.

The snail is very rare and is known from only a few scattered localities across the island, in plant litter in rainforest and moist woodland.